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Kusaka, Satoshi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education has been actively implemented around the world recently. ICT curriculum in schools is intended to improve students' programming-oriented thinking rather than to train them as programmers. The core of ICT education is 'computational thinking'. Computational thinking is taking an approach to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Thinking Skills, Information Technology, Programming
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Armoni, Michal – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2009
Reduction is a problem-solving strategy, relevant to various areas of computer science, and strongly connected to abstraction: a reductive solution necessitates establishing a connection among problems that may seem totally disconnected at first sight, and abstracts the solution to the reduced-to problem by encapsulating it as a black box. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Solving, Computer Science, Abstract Reasoning
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Nikula, Uolevi; Sajaniemi, Jorma; Tedre, Matti; Wray, Stuart – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
Students often find that learning to program is hard. Introductory programming courses have high drop-out rates and students do not learn to program well. This paper presents experiences from three educational institutions where introductory programming courses were improved by adopting Python as the first programming language and roles of…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, Abstract Reasoning, Introductory Courses